You are here

Iowa » Mississippi River—East » Dubuque » F. D. Stout House

F. D. Stout House

-A A +A
1890–1891. 1105 Locust St.

As the Richardsonian Romanesque continued into the 1890s, it became less picturesque and more ordered. The F. D. Stout house illustrates this classicizing trend. The usual rusticated red sandstone was still used for the walls. However, while a few round-arched openings, a corner tower, and the roofscape are varied, the fenestration of the house, with its emphasis on repeated rectangular openings, reveals none of the playfulness and romance one associates with the earlier forms of the style at the beginning of the 1880s. The result is a strong urban design of real authority, a design which could easily have been in fashion and built contemporaneously in Chicago or New York.

Writing Credits

Author: 
David Gebhard and Gerald Mansheim
×

Data

What's Nearby

H. L. Stout House
Masonic Temple
Carnegie Stout Library
Saint Luke's United Methodist Church
Strand Theater

Citation

David Gebhard and Gerald Mansheim, "F. D. Stout House", [Dubuque, Iowa], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/IA-01-ME170.

Print Source

Buildings of Iowa, David Gebhard and Gerald Mansheim. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993, 84-84.

If SAH Archipedia has been useful to you, please consider supporting it.

SAH Archipedia tells the story of the United States through its buildings, landscapes, and cities. This freely available resource empowers the public with authoritative knowledge that deepens their understanding and appreciation of the built environment. But the Society of Architectural Historians, which created SAH Archipedia with University of Virginia Press, needs your support to maintain the high-caliber research, writing, photography, cartography, editing, design, and programming that make SAH Archipedia a trusted online resource available to all who value the history of place, heritage tourism, and learning.

,